OPINION: The Last Auction…
By Diipo Fagunwa
An Auction happened in the years of old, on a day that only the rich would be proud to attend, and the...
Wayas, Man Of Taste And Rosy Cheeks Bows Out
By Gboyega Amoboye
So Dr. Joseph Wayas is dead. If good life, taste, fame and power were to determine...
TRIBUTE: “I Looked Back Instinctively… …But It Turned Out To Be My Last View...
By Femi Adesina
He told us he would be back at his desk soon. I believed it. But now,...
Reflections! Cuba: Lessons Of Social Inclusiveness, Resilience
By Olumuyiwa Jimoh
In 1958 Cuba then under the leadership of corrupt and selfish oligarchs experienced a deep impoverishment and emasculation of her citizenry, just...
LIVE UPDATES: Buhari Assigned Portfolio To Ministers (See Full List)
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POETRY: Yesterday, Today
By Chris Anyokwu
Yesterday was a surfeit of conceited farts Paradise on bubble,arpeggios of satieties thrummed the air titillations...
NDDC Auditor’s Report: Matters Arising
By Dauda Bala
The recent controversial 2008 – 2012 report of the Auditor General of the Federation (AGF) on the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC)...
OPINION: Between Sambo Dasuki, EFCC And DSS
By Abdulkadir Umar
The way and manner with which the case between the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against Col. Sambo Dasuki on one...
Law Review Series: Provocation As A Mitigating Element In Murder Cases
By Collins Ogonnaya ARIKOR
In any jurisdiction during the course of a criminal trial, an accused person may claim that a certain set of facts...
OPINION: Making Do With The Warriors In White
By Dare Babarinsa
Rotimi Ireti Akinola is my friend. He is one of the few Nigerians who look trouble in the...
The Zamfara State Killing Field
By Olusegun Adeniyi
Nigeria is currently engulfed in a major crisis of intergroup relations that is rooted in the politics of economic survival but which...
Kyari And His Hushpuppy
By Lasisi Olagunju Ph.D“There are lessons in this fall: I do not think Kyari started his career as a bad cop. Where...
TRIBUTE: How Are The Mighty Fallen
By Femi Fani-Kayode
Insults mean nothing to me. They only fuel my resolve and strengthen my determination. They are...
Neighbours Pay Tribute To British-Nigerian Family Who Drown In Pool
(News Investigators) Tributes have been paid to a British man and his two children who drowned in a resort swimming pool on...
COVID 19: Appeal To The President To Unlock Lagos And Abuja
By Ebun-Olu Onagboruwa
On March 29, 2020, the President directed the lockdown of Lagos, Ogun States and Abuja. Everything...
The Goons In The Other Room
By Hon. Segun Olulade
There exist a large room in the All Progressives Congress (APC) province; the room is large enough to accommodate the hopes...
Buhari Inaugurates New Cabinet, Retains Petroleum Minister Position
(NEWS INVESTIGATORS) President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday swore in the 43 appointed ministers at the Federal Executive Council Chambers, Presidential Villa, Abuja.
VIEWPOINT: The Liberating Power Of BREXIT
By Isidoros Karderinis
The referendum of June 23, 2016 regarding Britain’s remain at or exit from the European Union, through its subversive BREXIT result...
Sacking Of Over 200 Staff Of Federal University Dutsinma: Matters Arising
By Jacob Onjewu Dickson
The unity of Nigeria is non-negotiable as the country must remain one indivisible country and progress on that threshold to become...
Which Economic And Development Policy’s Should Africa Pursue To Ensure Its Survival Path?
By Dr. Mehenou Amouzou
Africa has a very serious economic identity problem. When compared to Asia, the continent has made much less progress. China, India,...
OPINION: Nigerian Economic Recovery Through Industrialization And Diversification By Public And Private Sector Synergy
By Ehiedu Iweriebor/APO/
NEW YORK, The current economic crisis and recession in Nigeria has brought to the fore what is already known: that the existent...
PACAC’s 2018 African Anti-Corruption Day: A Thumb Up For Mr. President
By Ibrahim L. Dan-Halilu
The Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) on Wednesday, July 11 celebrated the first African Anti-Corruption Day in Abuja with a...
Awo: Thirty Years After And The True Measure Of A Man
By Rotimi Opeyeoluwa
I don’t want funeral songs to be sung at my funeral because I won’t die. I will (only) change my life and...
VIEWPOINT: How French’s Next Presidential Election Can Modify France/Africa Relations?
By Dr. Mehenou Amouzou
From the slavery that lasted a little more than four centuries, to the colonization and independence tailored to sculptor African countries,...
OPINION: Wake Up, Nigeria Is Dying – A Reply To My Fulani Friends
Obadiah Mailafia
By Obadiah Mailafia
TODAY concludes
the piece I wrote in this...
Kyari Tribute: I Need No Validation Of Man -FFK
By Femi Fani-Kayode
My opposition to the Buhari Government for the last five years has been as constant...
Dakuku Peterside: A Credible Alternative For Rivers People
By Priye Briggs
“A Leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way” – John C. Maxwell.
Until the All Progressives...
OPINION: Kidnapping: Is Capital Punishment A Deterrent?
By Mufutau Egberongbe
Yes, Lagos is more than a country if it is to be compared with some countries in Africa. The Gambia is just...
My Lord, Tell Me Where To Keep Your Bribe?
By Niyi Osundare
A poem by the renowned Nigerian poet
My Lord
Please tell me where to keep your bribe?
Do I drop it in your venerable chambers
Or...
PERSPECTIVE: In Election Year, Will African Countries Get Investor’s Vote?
African map
By Laurie Hammond and Thibaut Hollanders
The
world, including investors, will keep a...
OPINION: Before Buhari Tampers With Press Freedom Again
By Martins Oloja
Even if we encourage ourselves by wishing for peaceful coverage of the 2019 election processes, as journalists, there are warning signals...
VIEWPOINT: Biafra And Kanu, A Possible End Foretold
By Omoshola Deji
Nigerian ethnic groups are enduring the pains, rather than enjoying the gains of unity. From 1960 to date, successive governments, both the...
Transparency Is Key To Corruption-free Infrastructure In Africa
By Chris Heathcote
The first Regional Roundtable on Infrastructure Governance was held in Cape Town at the beginning of November. Peter Eigen, founder of Transparency...
Abba Kyari’s Death, End Of A Surrogate Presidency, The Coming Chaos
By Farooq Kperogi
To say I was shocked by Abba Kyari's death would be to tell a lie....
OPINION: DINO D BRAVO!! Dino Melaye: The Making Of A Brand
By Reuben Abati
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PERSPECTIVE: How Can Use Of Smartphone’s Affect Human Health?
By Mehenou Amouzou
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Calming Frayed Nerves After The Storm Of Quit Notice(s)
By Idowu Samuel
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PERSPECTIVE: Boko Haram Conflict Enters Counterinsurgency Phase As Nigeria Erects “Fortresses”
By Jacob Zenn
The latest news from northeastern Nigeria is that the Nigerian army will erect fortresses around the region’s larger towns to prevent Boko...
View From Abroad: Chibok Release And Boko Haram’s Strategy
By Amb. John Campbell
Boko Haram’s release of eighty-two girls to the Nigerian government appears to be part of its strategy to maximize the value...
Edo Without Allocation: The Quest For A Refreshing And Visionary Leadership
By John Mayaki
According to Thomas Hobbes, life for man in the state of nature was, solitary, poor, brutish,...
The Tragedy Of Nigerian Journalism
By Godwin Onyeacholem
For anyone who truly lays claim to the practise of journalism in Nigeria, this is the time to shield the face from...
PMB At 74: Peace Shuttle In Birthday Week
By Femi Adesina
What a helluva week for a man who turns 74 today. In one day, in his birthday week, he flew from Abuja...
Presidency Pressured Daily Trust to Stop my Saturday Column
By Farooq Kperogi
I had chosen to
let this issue slide because it’s frankly of...
VIEWPOINT: Abba Kyari: Speaking Ill Of The Dead
By Remi Oyeyemi
"The evil that men do live after them." -- William Shakespare
I am...
VIEWPOINT: EFCC And The Burden Of Credibility
By Sule Yakubu
Nigeria`s most vocal and most visible anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), is breaking new grounds in what is...
PERSPECTIVE: Economic Recession And Path To Nigeria’s Genuine Rediscovery
By Idowu Samuel
Nigerians over the years had been treated to spirit breaking economic phrases often coined by experts and authorities in their attempts to...
PERSPECTIVE: The Appeal Court Verdict On Abia Guber Poll
By Michael Jegede
On Thursday, December 31, 2015, the Court of Appeal, sitting in Owerri, nullified the election of Okezie Ikpeazu of Peoples Democratic Party...
VIEWPOINT: Ekiti And The Drama Of Power
By Dare Babarinsa
At least Kayode Fayemi knows how to be a governor. Yes, we have had governors in Ekiti; the dignified Niyi Adebayo, the...
OPINION: Watch Out Trump, China Is Taking Africa From Under Your Nose
By David A. Andelman
ATLANTA, United States of America, August 13, 2018/ -- Look out Donald Trump, while you're not watching, China is quietly...
American Sh*thole
By Dayo Olopade
U.S. President Donald Trump’s reported comments maligning the people of African nations were a foreseeable outburst from a man addicted to the...
When Bell Rings Twice
By Sam Omatseye
Not many thought the first year of Muhammadu Buhari would look like this. The price of pump price at 145, the naira...
VIEWPOINT: Thoughts On A Tambuwal Presidency
By Okey Ikechukwu
Prince Kasim Afegbu`s intervention on this page last week threw up some interesting aspects of the unfolding drama around the 2019 presidency,...
OPINION: ‘Keeping Vigil Over This Democracy’
By Martins Oloja
The 2019 general election is barely five months away. Though the campaigns are yet to begin in earnest, key issues...
VIEWPOINT: Virus Outbreak Requires Better Media Environment
By Li Han Stereotype, according to the Oxford Dictionary, means “a fixed idea or image that many people have of a...
VIEWPOINT: A Face Of Nigerian Corruption
By Amb. John Campbell
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has frozen U.S. dollar bank accounts that former Nigerian First Lady Patience Jonathan claims...
OPINION: May We Ask, Your Honour, How Much Would This Buffoonery Cost Us?
“The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.”
Samuel Butler
By Joseph Cachia
Most Maltese are unaware of the heavy price that we have...
Buhari’s Battle Against Grex Venalium
By Chris Okotie
These, certainly, are not the best of times for the grex venalium (the venal crowd), popularly known by ordinary Nigerians as treasury...
Gombe APC Brouhaha: Let The Truth Be Told
By Sadiq Umar
The recent development in Gombe State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in which 7...
Perspective: Power Sector Reform, Many Questions Dr. Godknows Ighali Needs To Answer
By Sanya Olujobi
There have been many questions that run through my mind just like every other Nigerians with the major achievements recorded and recently...
OPINION: Wazirin Atiku Abubakar And The Renaissance Of Restructuring
By Benjamin Ogueri Enwerem
3 Years of APC is a Millennium just too long to bear.
It is excruciatingly hard to imagine that the collective patience...
DSO Nigeria: Beyond Devil’s Advocates
By Hamid Hendrix
Freedom without responsibility continues to pose a great challenge to the realization of the full potentials of our democratic dispensation and it...
What’s Going On In Abuja?
By Dele Momodu
Fellow Nigerians, I don’t know how many of you feel the way I feel but some things are not very clear to...
Taking Us For A N36.5m Ride To Hell
By Azu Ishiekwene
For all that is ripe and fit to pluck, our senators think the most concerning thing now is how to find themselves...
OPINION: Travails Of Apostle Suleman And Inciting Words Of Sultan Of Sokoto
By Femi Fani-Kayode
Nothing sums up the dangerous way in which the DSS is handling the Apostle Johnson Suleman affair better than the words of...
On Louis Odion’s Poorly Executed Hatchet Job On Governor Mimiko
By Imefv Efuda
The piece by Louis Odion is emblematic of the new low to which journalism has fallen in Nigeria. This is a piece...
Tragic Consequence of Religiosity and Politics
The deaths caused by a stampede during a visit by the All Progressives Grand Alliance to the Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry in Anambra State...
With CNG-Powered Buses, Ogun Leads The Pack In Post-Subsidy Transport
By Kayode Akinmade
A thinking leader is a planning leader. There is no gainsaying...
OPINION: Chibok And Dapchi Girls: The Whoredom Of Karma
By Sufuyan Ojeifo
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, and second, as farce. -Karl Marx
On Monday, February 19, 2018, Boko Haram insurgents invaded Government Girls...
Ocholi: Too Late To Stop Believing
By Femi Adesina
Let's be honest with ourselves. When some baffling things happen, we question God, if not verbally, at least, in our hearts. But...
January 15: Where We Came From
By Reuben Abati
January 15 every year is Nigeria’s Armed Forces Remembrance Day: wreaths are laid, statements are made, soldiers, government officials and the Nigerian...
Position Paper On The Structure Of Government Presented By Youth Delegates
HASSAN RILWAN
— April 29, 2014
As a follow-up to the first session wherein a viable youth agenda was outlined, I have in this second session...
$9.3m Controversial Arms Deal: APC Demands Explanation On Asari-Dokubo’s Involvement, Says He’s Among Arrested...
By Emmanuel Adesuji, Abuja.
The All Progressive Congress (APC) Wednesday demanded explanation from the President Goodluck Jonathan led federal government, the alleged involvement of former...
OPINION: Ambode’s Wife And The Chaplain: The Objectivity Test
By Toks Oguntuga
I doubt if there is anyone in Nigeria who has not heard of the sack of the Chaplain of Chapel of
Christ the...
VIEWPOINT: Chimamanda, Obi And Uwazuruike
By Adekunle Ade-Adeleye
While the Supreme Court was finally laying to rest the illusion that Atiku Abubakar of the...
PERSPECTIVE: FOREX Debate: Ifeanyi Ubah’s Economic/Financial Intervention – Volume I
By Ifeanyi Ubah
This Media Guidance Note has become necessary to ensure that the media capture in proper context the views I am expressing on...
The Unspiritual Side Of Aso Villa: A Reply To Reuben Abati
By Femi Adesina
Let me begin with two clarifications. Aso Villa is not my home, I am just passing through. Even this world is nobody’s...
Governor Wike, INEC And Burden Of Conscience
By Felix Balogun
It will do our Democratic experience a whole lot good if concerted efforts are made not only to raise caution against surreptitious...
Who Is Afraid Of Senator Teslim Folarin?
By Suleiman Arapaja
It is generally acknowledged that in a democracy such as ours, especially where voter apathy is replete, quite frequently, the number of...
Our Christmas Wish List
By Funk Egbemode
I was all set to write something hard and political until Maupe Ogun reviewed my back page in New Telegraph on Channels...
Why Edo Deserves to Produce the House Speaker
By Ebomhiana Musa
The elections are over, the battles have been fought fiercely, lost and won. Ultimately, Nigerians and Nigeria are the real winners. Yes,...
SUNDAY MUSINGS: On this Matter of the National Conference
Mobolaji E. Aluko, PhD
alukome@gmail.com
February 2, 2014
My People:
The Federal Government recently announced the modalities for the much-awaited National Conference, following the submission of the report...
Between Buhari And The Proposed Anti-New Media Law
By Mobolaji Susan Ajibuwa, Kansas City, USA
An unexpected deluge of criticisms against an attempt by privileged members of the Nigerian upper legislative chamber, the...
OPINION: Buhari And Minister Controversy – Matters Arising
By Lolu Onabule
It is not clear whether the Senate is bent on requiring the President to present himself for screening should he go ahead...
West Africa Single Currency: Lesson From European Single Currency
By Dr. Mehenou Amouzou
Western Africa states which are represented by Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a commission comprised of countries of 15...
OPINION: Rivers: Before Every One Is Killed
By Ibrahim Modibbo
I have no doubt in my mind that Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers state is a tragic hero. Taking full control of...
Kaadi Igbeayo: Spreading The Gains Of Democracy The Mimiko Way
By Femi Adepoju
"This is part of planning , Mimiko has taken us back to the Awolowo school of leadership, that leadership is not by...
PERSPECTIVE: Don’t Let Yourself or Your Enterprise Get Kidnapped Online!
By Lolu Onabule esq.
Cybercrime rates are at an all-time high in Nigeria and world over. Our threat landscape continues to expand. One of the...
PERSPECTIVE: Nigeria’s Military, A Deep Reflection
By Godwin Onyeacholem
For Nigeria’s military, times have never been this challenging. Plagued on the one hand by the fiendish activities of some twisted minds...
PERSPECTIVE: Drones Over Malta?
By Joseph Cachia
“Whatever one thinks of the justifiability of drone attacks, it's one of the least 'brave' or courageous modes of warfare ever invented. It's...
Buhari’s ‘Change’: The Place Of Women, Children, President’s Wife
By Rukkayat Aminu
The change mantra of the All progressives congress at the 2015 general election may have indeed earned president Muhammadu Buhari and his...
NASS Leadership: A Harvest Of Whirlwind
By Sufuyan Ojeifo
Some have described what happened in the National Assembly on Tuesday, June 9, 2015, with the emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki and...
OPINION: Nigeria: Time To Domesticate United Nations Security Council Resolution 2250
By Lawal Rafiu Adeniran
On the 9th December 2015, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 2250. This is the first Resolution that deals with...
OPINION- Ambode: A Humanist And Pragmatist At 53
By Habib Aruna
During the thick of the governorship campaign in 2015, the then candidate of the All Progressive Congress in Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode,...
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